Pres. Trump says he’s sending 1000 military personnel to NY City including doctors and nurses to help with sheer volume of virus crisis-Reuters, 4/4/20…(If all 1000 are in NY City within 24 hrs it will be a beginning)

New York City reported 305 new deaths on Friday, marking the biggest one-day jump so far and bringing the city’s death toll to at least 1,867. The city has confirmed at least 57,159 cases and makes up roughly a quarter of confirmed cases in the country. Cuomo said the state has 113,704 total cases.

Comment: I’ve heard and seen anecdotal reports that a big part of NY City’s problem is that a large percentage of health workers who’ve been caring for virus patients for weeks and months now have the virus themselves so have gone home. In addition, they’ve only just now started testing health care workers in NY City--hard to believe, but I heard it on a radio network news report on Sat. April 4.–Susan